Production planner

Job Title
Production planner

Job Description

The Production Planner focuses on planning, coordinating and controlling raw materials, and sub assembly inventory in a timely and cost-efficient manner. Ensuring that the end products required are available at the lowest possible cost at the right time, in the right place and in the right quantity.

As part of your role you will review inventory usage patterns to identify trends, avoid out of stock situations and prevent excess and obsolete inventory.

The Production leads the supply chain O&M (Organization and Methods) in aspects of logistics, Planning, reduce cycle time, improve OTD (On time Delivery), optimize inventory level, enhance work plan reliability and accuracy and capacity and resources analysis.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervises staff involved in daily activities
• Capacity and Resources analysis
• Supply Chain scenarios (What if simulation) & analysis
• Identify and implement advance planning methodologies and tools
• Monitor IS Ops KPI in terms of Inventory and Sales performances
• Manufacturing Planning & coordination
• Work with internal customers
• Monitor IS Ops KPI performances
• Interface with supply management, production and service departments
  
  

Education/Skills and Experience Requirements:

• B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering or other relevant degree
• Background related to manufacturing, planning and logistics
• Fluent English
• ERP experience, SAP – an advantage
• IT background (Planning Tools)
• Excellent communication skills & multi-tasking ability
  
  

How We Work Together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

Indicate if this role is an office/field/onsite role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

• Learn more about our business.
• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.
  
  

If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.